Comment by vincnetas
19 hours ago
if you understood only small part of the paper, how do you know that fable answers are correct and not just sound reasonable?
19 hours ago
if you understood only small part of the paper, how do you know that fable answers are correct and not just sound reasonable?
Because a math proof is generally de-composable into smaller constituent arguments that can be independently evaluated for correctness. So you can audit a sample of these arguments for correctness without reviewing everything. You would then verify that the arguments being true implies the conclusion.
He knows whether the explanations are coherent with eachother.